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New Brain Device Is First To Read Out Inner Speech
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ScientificAmerican: After a brain stem stroke left him almost entirely paralyzed in the 1990s, French journalist Jean-Dominique Bauby wrote a book about his experiences -- letter by letter, blinking his left eye in response to a helper who repeatedly recited ...
And on the cutting edge of this field, neuroscientists have more recently developed brain implants that can turn neural signals directly into whole words. Both use sensors implanted in a part of the brain called the motor cortex, which sends motion commands to the vocal tract. The team studied three people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and one with a brain stem stroke, all of whom had previously had the sensors implanted.
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